Wayback Machine: Harry's remarkable mark on the world

5:46 AM,
Feb. 3, 2014

Written by

JIM ALBANESE
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In February of 1953, Salinas High graduate Harry Morgan was sitting in one of the town's movie houses waiting for the feature attraction to begin.

There was the cartoon, of course, and then a newsreel. What the 19-year-old Morgan saw that night changed his life forever. And it changed hundreds of other lives, too.

The newsreel's lead story was about devastating flooding in the Netherlands. Morgan watched with a heavy heart as he saw a nation still recovering from more than five years of Nazi oppression in World War II now fighting what looked like a losing battle against the forces of nature. ...